Manager Yard

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Job description

Overview:

At ADS, no idea is off limits, and we celebrate creativity and bold moves. For more than 50 years ADS has been manufacturing a variety of innovative and environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional materials. Headquartered in Hilliard, Ohio, we are a multi-billion dollar stormwater management company, manufacturing pipe and ancillary products. What does that mean? When it storms, we capture rain with our drain basins, convey it with pipe, store it using chambers and finally treat it with our water quality products, before safely returning water back to the environment. We handle, what we call, the entire lifecycle of a raindrop. Our products help prevent flooding, which increases quality of life for people living in large cities, suburbs, and rural towns. We also believe in creating a circular economy and are the largest plastic recycling company in North America. We use plastic shampoo and detergent bottles to create pipe, diverting over 500 million pounds of plastic from landfills every year. ADS operates a global network of over 60 manufacturing plants and 30 distribution centers.

We have amazing stories to tell, and we need your help getting our story out there. To learn more about ADS, please visit our website at

Leadership Competencies:
The successful candidate must bring high level of ethical, intellectual, professional, and personal values that complement the team.

Strategic Mindset - anticipates future trends and implications accurately

Decision Quality - relies on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment when making decisions

Customer Focus - identifies opportunities that benefit the business

Business Insight - keeps up with current and possible future policies, practices, and trends in the organization, function, and in the marketplace

Plans and Aligns - breaks down objectives into appropriate initiatives and actions

Optimizes Work Processes - seeks ways to improve processes, from small tweaks to complete reengineering

Ensures Accountability - establishes clear responsibilities and processes for monitoring work and measuring results

Collaborates - works cooperatively with others across the organization to achieve shared objectives

Develops Talent - develops others through coaching, feedback, exposure, and stretch assignments

Builds Effective Teams - forms teams with appropriate and diverse mix of styles, perspectives, and experience

Drives Vision and Purpose - talks about future possibilities in a positive way

Courage - faces difficult issues and supports others who do the same

Responsibilities:
The Yard Manager supervises and directs the work activities of all Yard personnel involved in the shipping, receiving and handling of product. This position provides leadership and direction in loading and unloading techniques, receiving procedures, yard organization, inventory handling and control, yard vehicle maintenance and the promotion of a safe working environment. A Yard Manager generally supervises a department of up to 15 Yard Loaders. The Yard Manager is involved with all plant personnel including hiring, employee development, terminations and disciplinary actions. This position requires the flexibility to work 40+ hours per week and weekends as required. The Yard Manager reports directly to the Plant Manager.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

Practice proper PPE compliance and maintain a safe working record and environment

Facilitation of departmental communication and meetings

Immediately communicate unsafe conditions, acts or injuries to Plant Manager

Conducting cycle-counts

Practice proper forklift and yard vehicle operation and preventive maintenance

Management of product rotation

Maintain yard housekeeping, organization and layout

Assurance of maximized payloads

Maintain and build job skills through company training programs

Ensuring departmental policy compliance

Communication with Dispatcher regarding relative issues

Management of departmental training

Organization of daily loading sequence

Department personnel administration

Yard vehicle maintenance schedule compliance

Maximization of departmental labor efficiencies

Minimization of loading errors

Coordination of DOT stock lots

Minimization of departmental overtime

Finished Goods quality inspections

Management of product conversions

Confirmation of customer orders (ASN)

Management of yard organization, layout and map

Management of L/MH certification programs

Management of CPU's and RMA's

Understand and practice ADS CORE VALUES

Promote a positive and transparent work environment

Ensure proper management of operating supply purchases via the internal PO system or company credit card

Job Skills:

This position should possess the following skills/knowledge:

Professionalism and leadership skills

Familiarity with BOM products

Time management and organizational skills

Operating system functions including inventory & order entry procedures

Communication skills

Basic computer skills

Knowledge of all ADS products

Familiarity with miscellaneous & resale products

Freight management

Inventory management

Receiving procedures

Mathematical skills

Knowledge of local shipping regulations

Forklift & OTR vehicle driving skills

Educational Requirements:

High School Diploma or equivalent
Vocational or Associates Degree preferred

Preferred Experience:

3-5 years experience as an ADS Yard Loader

Supervisory experience

Physical Requirements:

Ability to repeatedly lift 75 pounds to a height of 6 feet

Ability to stand and be mobile for a minimum of 8 continuous hours

Ability to perform physical labor for extended periods of time in temperature extremes

Ability to use hands, arms and legs to physically handle and transport finished goods

Position requires full range of body motion including twisting, bending, reaching, squatting and ability to mount/dismount industrial equipment and vehicles

EEO Statement:
ADS supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience, and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. ADS is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.

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